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Entry no.: 954

3 Jan 2010, 12:01 PM

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Travel Banteay Srei temple

Banteay Srei Temple, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2010.

Banteay Srei Temple at Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Entry no.: 953

3 Jan 2010, 8:41 AM

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Travel Floating village

Chong Khneas, the floating village of Siem Reap river, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Cambodia, 2010.

Chong Khneas, the floating village of Siem Reap river. Click here or on the image to watch video. Shot here.

Entry no.: 952

2 Jan 2010, 5:24 PM

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Travel Siem Reap night market

Siem Reap night market, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2010.

Night market in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to watch video. Shot here.

Entry no.: 951

2 Jan 2010, 10:40 AM

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Travel Angkor temple

Angkor temple, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Cambodia, 2010.

Angkor temple, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Angkor temple, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Cambodia, 2010.

Angkor temple, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Entry no.: 950

1 Jan 2010, 5:56 PM

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Travel Fish massage

Fish massage, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2010.

Fish massage "parlor" in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to watch video. Shot here.

Entry no.: 949

1 Jan 2010, 4:20 AM

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Travel Cambodia New Year

Cambodia New Year, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2009.

New Year party in hotel garden, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to see video. Shot here.

Entry no.: 948

1 Jan 2010, 4:09 AM

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Travel Phuket beach

Phuket beach, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Phuket, Thailand, 2009.

Little girl watching sunset on Phuket beach. Click here or on the image to watch video. Location.

Entry no.: 947

27 Dec 2009, 9:11 AM

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Travel Bangkok shrine

Bangkok shrine, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2009.

Shrine next to the boulevard, skybridge and skytrain line, Bangkok. Click here or on the image to see video. Location.

Bangkok shrine, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2009.

Same shrine from a different angle, Bangkok. Click here or on the image to see video. Location.

Entry no.: 945

27 Dec 2009, 6:50 AM

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Travel Shopping avenue

Shopping avenue, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2009.

Outside of Siam Paragon near Siam Square main skytrain (BTS) station, Bangkok. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

It was shot here.

Entry no.: 944

23 Dec 2009, 7:51 PM

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Travel Park

Park, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2009.

Park, Bangkok. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Entry no.: 943

23 Dec 2009, 3:36 PM

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Travel Ice-skating rink

I'll try a new thing here: one-minute videos instead of plain shots. One minute of nothing special, just life. Consider them "long photos".

If the technical part is getting botched (leave a comment if you can't see it) I'll have to move the stuff to Vimeo or YouTube and embed it back here — that'll take a while. Here is the first one, let's see how this goes.

Ice-skating rink, one minute video, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Dubai, 2009.

Shoping mall ice-skating rink, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Click here or on the image to watch the video.

Location.

Entry no.: 942

23 Dec 2009, 4:27 PM

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Travel Burj Dubai

Burj Dubai, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Dubai, 2009.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Burj Dubai is the tallest man-made structure ever built: 818 meters and 162 habitable floors — and expected to hold up to 35,000 people.


Update: This is so tall I had to stitch three pictures together to get it all in the frame.

Entry no.: 786

1 Aug 2009, 11:55 PM

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Travel Monaco II

One more: a vertical panorama from above the 'Gare de Monaco'.

Monte Carlo vertical panorama, from above 'Gare de Monaco', Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monte Carlo, 2009.

There are a few more levels—not visible from this angle. Now that's a layer cake!

Entry no.: 785

31 Jul 2009, 8:46 PM

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Travel Monaco I

A few quick, rough and dirty iPhone panoramas. Click on the images to enlarge.

Monte Carlo 360° panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monaco, 2009.

Monte Carlo 360° panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monaco, 2009.

Monte Carlo 360° panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monaco, 2009.

Monte Carlo 360° panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monaco, 2009.

Monte Carlo 360° panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monaco, 2009.

Monte Carlo 360° panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Monaco, 2009.

Monte Carlo—home ecosystem to some of the best specimens human race can produce. Also, to many of the worst.

Entry no.: 681

1 Jan 2009, 8:11 PM

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Travel Unfinished affair

Financial district's skyscrapers, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Singapore, 2008.

Have you ever bumped into that ex-lover that you're still in love with?

Do you remember the magic agony—endorphins jumping around like a bunch of frisky kittens messing around with your over-clocked heart—of falling in love again?

Yeah.

I feel that exactly. I'm back in Singapore after 8 years and I'm unavoidably falling for this city. Again.

Entry no.: 680

28 Dec 2008, 9:10 PM

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Travel Boredom never felt so good

Gulf of Thailand, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Koh Samui, 2008.

Japanese-style Koi pond, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Koh Samui, 2008.

It happens right here, on Koh Samui island.

Entry no.: 528

27 Jul 2008, 2:28 PM

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Travel Helmut Newton Foundation

Big Nudes at Helmut Newton Foundation, Richard Reens, Berlin, 2008.

Clandestine shot of the famous Big Nudes series exhibited in the staircase. Richard Reens, Berlin, 2008.

At the Helmut Newton Foundation on Jebensstrasse the current exhibition on display is Pigozzi and the paparazzi.

From the exhibition's program:

Jean Pigozzi, the photographer included in the exhibition title, has been able to cultivate the kind of intensive and intimate relationship with the rich and the famous that is so desperately sought after by the paparazzi at large. Being befriended with many famous people in the international social and cultural scene, he has been making candid portraits of prominent individuals at private locations since the 1970’s. An unusual aspect of his work is his double portrait series Pigozzi & Co. In this ongoing project he appears together with a musician or an actor friend, the two posed with their heads, often touching, in a close-cropped composition. These are images from daily life, in which Pigozzi poses as friend and fan.

There were also some awesome pictures by Newton that I haven't seen before.

In his autobiography Newton wrote that after he saw Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita starring Anita Ekberg, he became interested in the phenomenon of the paparazzi. In 1970 he travelled to Rome to work with “real” paparazzi. As part of a commission for the fashion magazine Linea Italiana, Newton hired a few of them to pose with his models. In Newton’s unconventional approach the photographers were asked to treat the model as if she were a famous person. An interesting aspect of Newton’s work is the combination of multiple real elements, such as the model, the fashion and the paparazzi, on the one hand, with the staging of the photograph on the other.

Paparazzi picture of Cristian Kit Paul at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Richard Reens, Berlin, 2008.

Paparazzi picture of Cristian Kit Paul at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Richard Reens, Berlin, 2008.

Richard almost made the universe cancel itself out by taking paparazzo pictures of me looking at pictures of paparazzi taken by other paparazzi. Richard Reens, Berlin, 2008.

So. If you are in Berlin and have a couple of hours to spend, pay a visit to the HNF. It's handily placed in Ku'Damm area and beside Newton's works, cameras and props, there are other photo exhibitions, a wonderful bookstore and a Café Einstein ready to provide for that raging caffeine addiction of yours.

But, um, you're not allowed to take pictures.

Entry no.: 527

25 Jul 2008, 12:44 AM

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Travel Change

Crowd gathered to listen to Barack Obama in Belin, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Berlin, 2008.

Crowd gathered to listen to Barack Obama in Belin, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Berlin, 2008.

Crowd gathered to listen to Barack Obama. Cristian "Kit" Paul, Berlin, 2008.

Along with other 200,000 people gathered at the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park—Berliners as well as foreigners—I witnessed today the latest episode in the birth of a new species of politician.

Hopefully.

Entry no.: 461

27 Mar 2008, 7:15 PM

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Travel Ich bin ein Berliner

Berliner Flughäfen, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Berlin, 2008.

Fleeing the country for the better part of the week seems like a golden idea since in Bucharest hysteria boils as the heavy security measures taken to protect the honchos participating in the 20th NATO Summit effectively paralyze the city and strongly interfere with its moving swarms of anxious inhabitants.

So for the weekend ich bin ein Berliner. Well, ein temporary Berliner, at least.

Don't expect anything other than camera-phone photos because—after eight years—I carry a film camera, again. Analogue. There's no better place to do this.

Tschüs Tschüß!

Entry no.: 403

5 Jan 2008, 8:52 PM

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Travel Awakening

From this:

Elephant-clubbing, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

To this:

Freezing dark, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bucharest, 2008.

Charming! An asphyxiating 50°C difference—more than enough to hate the latitude of 45° N.

It just ain't right.

Entry no.: 401

1 Jan 2008, 7:08 AM

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Travel Getting around

SkyTrain tracks, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

 Floating Market boat, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Thailand, 2007.

From Bangkok SkyTrain to Ratchaburi Floating Market boat.

Entry no.: 397

29 Dec 2007, 7:34 PM

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Travel Kata

View from Kata Beach, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Phuket, 2007.

View from Kata Beach, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Phuket, 2007.

Long-tail fishing boats on Kata Beach on Phuket island, away from the busy—and PR-rich—Patong Beach.

Entry no.: 394

25 Dec 2007, 8:14 AM

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Travel The street

150-250, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

Street, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

Entry no.: 393

22 Dec 2007, 6:22 AM

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Travel Away

Bangkokery-one, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

35°C: no icicles or snow, no icy wind, no steamy breath—except for air conditioning maniacs, maybe.

They call it Krung Thep Maha Nakhon—Bangkok for the rest of us.

Entry no.: 337

10 Nov 2007, 2:02 PM

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Travel Overlayed

Overlayed, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Iasi, 2007

Planes where business class is exactly the same as coach, seats dwarfed by the dimensions of real human beings, inedible in-flight meals and fare prices that obliviously feed armies of leech companies buying more political support than aviation gasoline.

Refurbished communist hotels run by lazy managers, italian-looking hotels built upon stolen concepts, plain vanilla hotels decorated by blind interior designers and a posh hotel designed by Gustave Eiffel himself were awful music harms the human soul.

Cheap wines, expensive wines, sleepwalking waiters with neon-reflecting eyes, cotton-padded brains and not even the distant memory of a smile.

Entry no.: 240

16 Sep 2007, 12:18 PM

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Travel On the road

Cross in the sky, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007

A glimpse of tomorrow, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007

Seriously high speed and no music, only the absolute awareness of tires pulling the distant city lights closer and closer.

Entry no.: 239

15 Sep 2007, 11:40 AM

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Travel Hotel lifeforms

Hotel lifeforms, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Targu Mures, 2007

Little hotel friends—Târgu Mureș, Transylvania, 2007.

Entry no.: 175

9 Jul 2007, 12:28 AM

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Travel On the road again

Dreaming speed, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

Silhouettes and details, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

There are ordinary sunsets and then there are exceptional ones, when the cruising speed makes rays of fading sunlight escape through ragged hilltops in perfect sync with the playlists' moods cascading through the car speakers.

Entry no.: 155

25 Jun 2007, 2:35 AM

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Travel Leaving Copenhagen

Leaving Copenhagen (and Denmark) and heading back to Amsterdam, I got to take a few shots on my way.

Windmills, Cristian Kit Paul, Denmark, 2007

Windmills, hundreds of them in the countryside — when taking off a sea windmill farm with 20 windmills is visible just outside Copenhagen Harbor. Sorry I could not catch that.

Kastrup International Airport, Cristian Kit Paul, Copenhagen, 2007

Kastrup International Airport with its mind-boggling teak flooring — "impossibly efficient" as Wallpaper* reviews it. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's the nicest airport I've seen and the flooring gives it a very personal and almost cozy feeling despite its vast dimensions.

Oresund Link, Cristian Kit Paul, Denmark, 2007

The 7845m Øresund Link bridge and tunnel combo joins the Danish capital to southern Sweden.

Now — back in Bucharest.

Entry no.: 152

22 Jun 2007, 1:31 PM

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Travel Copenhagen (III)

Copenhagen in a nutshell

I thought long and I thought hard about defining the essence of how I perceived Copenhagen, only to realize in the end that summarizing it's not difficult at all. Here it is.

Copenhagen Opera House, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

A long leash, Cristian Kit Paul, Copenhagen, 2007

These are pictures were shot on the same day, the first one — through telephoto lens — on the remote bank of the canal, and the other one on my side, and they're suggestive to me because they depict the two ends of Scandinavian — and especially Copenhagen — feeling.

The picture of Copenhagen Opera House reflects my sensation that the place is jammed with bold design, landmark architecture and advanced technology.

This is the country of Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, of Arne Jacobsen (have a look at his chairs) and Georg Jensen (damn, I irreversibly fell in love with his Koppel Chronograph), of BoConcept, LEGO and, of course, the country of Stimorol, Carlsberg and Tuborg.

There is Illums Bolighus on Amagertorv 10, a four story temple of design houseware, a Danish design crash-course almost as comprehensive as Kunstindustrimuseet and certainly a commercial smash hit.

Speaking of Kunstindustrimuseet (Danish Museum of Art and Design), this is a place so special it deserves a post of its own.

On the other hand, the city manages to remain human, sweet and cozy. No tube, no traffic jams, in a no-hassle metropolitan environment with a population only slightly over the 1 million mark. People are riding their bikes everywhere, but everything is within walking distance in the central area if you are a determined walker. Many places look like holiday resorts, with tiny restaurants and small terraces one next to another, with colorful people and laid-back atmosphere.

There is Tivoli Gardens amusement park, with friendly butterflies and people screaming upside-down and there is Amagertorv, one of Europe's most attractive shopping strips, a sweet, sweet poison for your bank account.

God, I love this place!

Entry no.: 150

20 Jun 2007, 1:28 AM

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Travel Copenhagen (II)

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Entry no.: 149

18 Jun 2007, 12:24 AM

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Travel Copenhagen (I)

Semi-domesticated butterfly, Cristian Kit Paul, Copenhagen, 2007

If yesterday I came face to face with a rainbow in Amsterdam, today I've met up with a friendly butterfly here in Copenhagen. He was fluffy like a kitten, so I was tempted to pet his back and see if he purrs, but he wouldn't let me.

The screaming upside-down people, Cristian Kit Paul, Copenhagen, 2007

I have also seen the upside-down people, all screaming in terror and I felt terribly sorry for them. Maybe this is how they punish people around here when they look and act unreasonably normal. Because they do.

Entry no.: 148

16 Jun 2007, 11:24 PM

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Travel Amsterdam to Copenhagen

Rainbow over Schiphol, Cristian Kit Paul, Amsterdam, 2007

Delayed flight from Schiphol, just enough to allow for a short hide-and-seek play with a little rainbow stretching over the terminal.

Schiphol control tower, Cristian Kit Paul, Amsterdam, 2007

Hell's fluffy bells, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

Windowshot, Cristian Kit Paul, Copenhagen, 2007

Left eventually — passed in a hurry over the entrance in hell — and arrived to København — where I'll stay for a few days.

Entry no.: 147

13 Jun 2007, 4:48 PM

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Travel Danube lunch

Danube lunch, Calarasi, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

A decrepit restaurant in an useless port to Danube, rusted tugboats, spicy fish and cold wine. Good fish. Good wine.

Entry no.: 132

12 May 2007, 1:48 PM

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Travel Car-talk-car

Girl's shadow on the projector screen, Cristian Kit Paul, Craiova, 2007

Clubul Universitarilor Craiova, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

In the rearview mirror the sun's going down, Cristian Kit Paul, 2007

Who would've thought that being a designer involves so much talk and so much business travel?

Entry no.: 110

5 Apr 2007, 1:36 PM

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Travel Urban riders

Midnight enigma in downtown Moscow

Three nights walking the commercial boulevards in Moscow, three nights the horseback riders made their appearance. Girls on horses. Clip clop, clip clop, right on the sidewalks, among the midnight passers-by. On the first night one of them asked me for money — I didn't have any money changed into local currency yet so I gave her nothing. Tough luck.

Girls riding horses on downtown Moscow's sidewalks, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007.

First night I was totally surprised and managed to take a shot only after they passed by.

Girls riding horses on downtown Moscow's sidewalks, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007.

Girls riding horses on downtown Moscow's sidewalks, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007.

Second night I wasn't that stupefied anymore but the light was not so great.

Girls riding horses on downtown Moscow's sidewalks, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007.

Girls riding horses on downtown Moscow's sidewalks, Cristian -Kit- Paul, 2007.

The third night I managed to ambush them in front of a well-lit store window.

This all leaves me with a few unanswered questions.

What the hell was that all about, riding horses on downtown Moscow's sidewalks? Are those girls walking their extra-large house-pets at night? Are they elite of tramps, the cavalry of beggars? Noblewomen? Is this posh leisure, green locomotion, fucking coolness, extreme-sport, fashionable eccentricity?

Regardless of what their story might be, the urban riders are — at least for me — part of brand Moscow.

Entry no.: 106

2 Apr 2007, 1:11 AM

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Travel Moscow cabs?

Sure. Every car might be a cab!

In Moscow you can use any car as a taxicab

Here's the story. For four days, I've never took a taxicab in Moscow. For four days my guides used the following routine instead: raised a hand towards the cars riding on the first lane of the highway/boulevard/street and a car (often two or even three) stopped. After a very short negotiation we jumped in and we're gone. Money changed hands, relaxed chatter happened between the fronts sits (in Russian) and eventually we were delivered at the destination.

They were not cabs. They were not previously hired rides. It was all kind of paid hitch-hiking!

You can use any car as a taxi

—It would take 30, maybe 45 minutes for a cab to show up with these traffic jams, they said. And who cares about taxicabs, anyway? We have our own scheme. You can use any car as a taxi. 100% efficient: no phone calls on hold, no waiting. Arm raised, cars stop. Better.

—Well, I replied, every capital has taxis and I never — not ever — seen something like this.

—Yes, but this is Moscow, they replied. This is our way.

Entry no.: 100

21 Mar 2007, 8:44 AM

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